In this month's skin cancer update video, Professor Giuseppe Argenziano explores various types of melanoma, including atypically slow-growing melanomas, and best practice for long-term monitoring.
Different types of melanoma do exist in relation to their biological attitude to grow and metastasize.
In this video, Prof Giuseppe Argenziano shares some fascinating patient cases he has encountered in his own practice. These cases include a patient who presented with a slow-growing melanoma which had been monitored for 10 years with very little growth or change.
Prof Argenziano explores the clinical and dermoscopic characteristics of slow-growing melanomas. Next, he looks at cases of early but fast-growing melanomas, and explores the differential features between the two.
He further discusses when to monitor and when to excise.
See all this and more in the full video below!
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Prof Giuseppe Argenziano is Professor and Head of the Dermatology Unit at the University of Campania, Naples, Italy; Co-founder and past president of the International Dermoscopy Society; and Editor-in-Chief of Dermatology Practical and Conceptual Journal. His main research field is dermato-oncology, authoring numerous scientific articles and books concerning dermoscopy, melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer. As coordinator of the Melanoma Unit at the Campania University, he has established a successful tertiary, multidisciplinary, referral center particularly devoted to the diagnosis and management of patients with melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer.
Over the past 25 years, Prof Argenziano has supervised over 500 foreign and Italian residents in dermatology, established scientific collaborations with 1500+ colleagues from more than 50 nations, and organised more than 500 national and international didactic meetings, courses and conferences (such as the Consensus Net Meeting on Dermoscopy and the First Congress of the International Dermoscopy Society).
Prof Argenziano has authored more than 650 full scientific articles and produced landmark primary publications and books in the field of melanoma and dermoscopy. Over the past 25 years he has been invited as speaker and/or chairman in more than 500 national and international conferences in the field of dermatology. His combined publications have received a sum total of 15.250+ citations with an h-index value of 61 (Scopus 2020).